Structured cabling
Copper and fibre cabling installed, terminated, dressed and labelled by our own team.
Structured cabling is the permanent wiring between racks, rooms and outlets, the part that should outlast several generations of switches. It is worth doing properly once: sensible pathways, separation from power, enough slack, and labels anyone can follow.
Our cabling team works in the racks and cabinets we build, so cable managers, entries and patch panels are planned together with the rack layout instead of being fitted around it.
What it covers
- Pathways
- Routes for backbone and horizontal cabling over or under the racks, kept apart from power cables, with fill and bend radius allowed for.
- Copper
- Twisted-pair cabling terminated on patch panels and outlets.
- Fibre
- Backbone and inter-rack fibre terminated in fibre enclosures, with slack stored and protected.
- Dressing
- Cables bundled and routed through managers, clear of airflow paths and blanking.
- Labelling
- Every cable, port and panel labelled to a scheme agreed with you.
What you receive
- Labelling schedule and as-installed cable routes
When to call us
- New server rooms and data halls
- Comms rooms and floor distribution
- Re-cabling congested racks
- Fibre links between rooms or buildings
Questions
Can you re-cable a room that is already running?
Yes, in planned stages: new cabling is installed alongside the old, services move across in agreed windows, and dead cable is removed afterwards.
Why keep data cables apart from power cables?
Power cables can induce noise in unshielded data cabling, and mixed bundles are hard to trace and change. Separate pathways, or a clear gap where they have to cross, avoid both problems.
Products this applies to
Network cabinets
Floor-standing cabinets for switching, routing and patching, with room beside the rails for high cable counts.
Details & selection guideCable management & rack accessories
Cable managers, blanking panels, shelves and plinths: the parts that keep a rack row tidy and its airflow sealed.
Details & selection guideOpen-frame racks
Two-post and four-post racks for patching and network equipment in secured rooms.
Details & selection guide